Four things:
ONE. I finally got a chance to watch Rang De Basanti yesterday afternoon, over at Naz Cinema in the South Bay. I thought it was rocking. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much during a movie. Because our huge group was practically the only audience, I got to laugh as much […]

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I recommend you all take a minute (or ten, if you’re slow) to read Sri’s post, March at Harbor. I read it yesterday morning, and it made me want to cry at the depth of human misery - and laugh at the strength of the human spirit.
Make some time to read through Sri’s archives. […]

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You know what else is annoying? When you write up a brilliant entry and post it and then come back the next morning and check your weblog and don’t see it there. So apparently you just dreamt you wrote it, and now you have to “re-write” the whole thing all over again. What a process, […]

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Just got an email from a listerve I’m on, about how a recent discovery in The Birmingham News archives led to the publication of unseen photographs tracing the progress of the civil rights movement through Birmingham.
The woman who sent the email explained:
The Birmingham News recently discovered a trove of unpublished photos from the early days […]

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[All links via Kottke.]
one. Jonathan Rauch’s March2003 article, Caring for Your Introvert:
Introverts are not necessarily shy. Shy people are anxious or frightened or self-excoriating in social settings; introverts generally are not. Introverts are also not misanthropic, though some of us do go along with Sartre as far as to say “Hell is other people at […]

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You know what’s annoying? When you write an entry and post it, and then later, while cleaning up your desktop, come across a file containing an already-half-written entry (actually, bullet points) that you were planning on posting for that event but then forgot all about. And since the already-posted entry in question was two posts […]

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The daddy-o and I just sat side-by-side - each of us reading our respective The New Yorker magazines [the Feb. 27, 2006 issue has a fascinating article entitled “Pursuing Happiness: Two scholars explore the fragility of contentment”] - and finished off a huge bowl of ice cream together.
Earlier, soon after we had finished dinner, the […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. [Click to read in the original sizes]
Actually, I don’t really have much to say about the 25 thing, except:
1. The poetry in the photos above really resonates right about now. [Click the photos to read.]
2. I don’t feel 25. Actually, I never felt 23 or 24 either, or anything older […]

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Too many things to update about - at least two weeks’ worth - and in order to do it all justice, I’m going to hold off on it. Meanwhile, those of you who are in the SF Bay Area or the vicinity should stop by Berkeley for a free (that’s right! I said, FREE) event […]

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Since most of you are too horrified or disturbed, I’m sure, to comment on my letter to God in the previous post, I just thought I’d let all y’all know that I’m off to Oakland soon for Jummah [Friday congregational prayers], where I’ll try to repent for my blasphemy. Yes, aren’t you relieved?
Good things about […]

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